Summary
Hans Kramer: Critique of hermeneutics
Philosophy of interpretation and realism
In the systematically developed book "Critique of Hermeneutics" (Munich, 2007), Kramer presents the most serious challenge to the conception of philosophical hermeneutics by Hans Georg Gadamer, one of the most influential thinkers of the past century. Kramer, who during the entire research period tried to understand what the ancient authors had in mind and what they wanted to say, with extreme seriousness and for him typical, incomparable erudition and thoroughness, tries to question Gadamer's influential concept, which, among other things, challenges the possibility (and also the meaningfulness) of searching for the original meaning of the words of the philosophical and every other tradition. Contrary to the intention of philosophical hermeneutics, as well as numerous contemporary directions in philosophy, Kramer wants to rehabilitate that sense of the real and reality that does not depend on interpretation and that is not subject to interpretation. In this respect, it represents a very special phenomenon in contemporary philosophy.
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